Battalion Editorials
DIGGING IN FOR THE BIG BARRAGE
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1950
Dr. Millikan: Knowledge Plus Wisdom .
For those who would heed his message,
Dr. Robert A. Millikan has the answer to the
universal question, “What is my responsi
bility toward world peace?”
Speaking in Guion Hall last Friday night,
Dr. Millikan, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 1923, told his audience that the
criterion of a person’s actions can be judged
by honestly applying the question of whether
the action would benefit the world as a
whole. If each man would govern himself
by that standard, lasting world peace would
immediately become a reality.
In the history of mankind, the two great
est forces for good have been science and re
ligion, explained Dr. Millikan. But these
two forces, when perverted by wrong think
ing men, have also brought war, misery, and
suffering to mankind since the first man be
gan to wonder about the well ordered scheme
of things in nature.
There were bound to be people who disa
greed with some of the scientists’ beliefs
and arguments. He pointed out errors in
some of the most believed-in religions and
theologies. He set world patriotism above
nationalism. But everyone would agree on
one effect of his talk—he caused them to
think and to examine their political, moral,
and religious principles.
The College showed admirable foresight
in arranging for Dr. Millikan’s appearance.
Learning from men of his caliber will help
to develop wisdom as well as knowledge.
General ‘Ike’ Attacks Preventive War . . .
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his speech
at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, vig
orously attacked the idea of a “preventive
war” against Russia. War, according to
General Eisenhower, begets conditions that
beget further war. “Although this sugges
tion is repeatedly made, none has yet ex
plained to me how war prevents war” the
General continued.
While he does not approve of, or recog
nize this method of maintaining peace, he
proposes “to .combat those who plot it
(aggression) with an alert defensive force
that can parry the first rush, while a crush
ing offensive is promptly initiated against
the attacker.” The proposed force of three
million men for resisting aggression seemed
reasonable to the General in view of the
size of our nation.
Thoughts for Those at Home
One of the costs of war or threat of war
is a so-called “lost generation.” These men
are the ones who happen to be born with av
erage or better mental and physical equip
ment, but the catch is that they were born
at the wrong time. Many individual cases
can be cited, but the fundamental pattern is
the same.
A threat to our security means that all
qualified males discharge their patriotic du
ty, but being a modern minute man is get
ting to be quite complicated. Assuming that
our minute man returns without injury, the
chances are that he will remain in some type
of reserve unit either because of a sense of
duty, service regulation, or, in some units for
actual monetary compensation.
The nation’s federal courts are in danger
of complete domination by the presidency.
Partly loyalty, subservience to the ruling
powers, is the yardstick by which our judges
are chosen.—Rep. Cecil M. Harden (R-Ind.)
I doubt very much that private enterprise
as we have known it could survive a long,
American Prisoners Honor
Hero of Sunchoo Massacre
Eisenhower acknowledged that “it will
demand sacrifice, but can any sacrifice be
considered too great, if it guarantees a life
time of freedom?” In his closing repiarks,
the General conceded that this program will
call for a “sudden and tremendous increase
in the budget for defense,” but also warned
that “reckless, extravagance, selfish grab
bing, and heedless spending will mortgage
the future of America.”
These words reflect the cool, considered
opinion of a man who has served his country
in exceedingly high military and civilian ca
pacities. We subscribe wholeheartedly to
these views, and we believe that the secur
ity of this country depends on the availabil
ity in times ,of crisis of men with proven
integrity and judgment such as Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
World War II set this stage for millions
of men, and the Korean crisis and rearma
ment have brought the climax. Some of the
results are death, injury, interrupted educa
tions, ruined businesses, loss of professional
practices, loss of jobs, financial distress,
broken homes, and employment discrimina
tion.
The easiest way to dismiss the matter is
to say “oh well — somebody has to pay the
price for the freedom we enjoy,” and let it
pass. The situation is, to say the least, a
mass tragedy, regardless of the agencies de
signed to alleviate major hardships. Those
who stay at home and complain about high
taxes might do well to keep these facts in
mind. War costs more than money.
total war.—Associate U. S. Supreme Court
Justice Robert H. Jackson.
The entire government seems to be like
a man who can feel one thing with the right
hand, another with his left, and can see other
events before his eyes, but has no brain in
his head.—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio).
From Where I Sit . . .
Song Duo Replaces
‘No-Doz’ and Coffee
In case they’re interested, we’d like to warn the No-Doz
corporation and the coffee companies of dire competitive
threats which bid fair to short-circuit their economic stabil
ity.
Sirs, unless you contact MGM studios and arrange for
the immediate dismissal of Misses Betty Hutton and Judy
Garland, the financial consequences will be grim and disas
trous. For these blatant belles can turn their caterwaulings
into as potent a stimulant as that which you pawn off to ener
vated college students in search of a mystic pep elixir to be
imbibed the evenipgs before major exams.
This sort of frenetic deportment has been given the
euphemism “vivacious” by glib publicity hounds, but we con
tend that such vivacity as that displayed by Hutton and Gar
land can be yours for the asking simply by pouring alcohol
into an open wound.
By DON WHITEHEAD
Sunchon, North Korea —(A > )—
There was a special hero in the
tragic massacre of the Sunchon
tunnel. He will be revered always
by those American prisoners of
war who escaped the Communist
slaughter.
The Reds murdered at least 68
Americans Friday—shooting them
as they sat in the fields at twi
light waiting for their promised
supper. Those few who survived
never will forget the major.
He must have been a wonderful
man—that major—a man whose
deeds gave courage and faith to
those with less strength and deter
mination.
He was a Major McDaniel of the
34th Infantry Regiment of the
U. S. 24th Division. He had been
captured in the early days of the
Korean war.
He had been taken to Seoul
with other American prisoners
of the Reds—those who had not
been bound and shot on the bat
tlefield.
I first heard of the major from
Pvt. James Yeager of Route 1,
Grand Junction, Colo., a blond
youth who somehow had survived
the massacre.
Weak from hunger and long suf
fering, Yeager sat on a ridgetop
and talked about Major McDaniel.
He talked about the Red massacre
of American prisoners, and then
... By Herman C. Gollob he burst out:
“I hope to God the major still
is alive. He may be. But where
ever he is, he was a real guy.
“I met him at Seoul. The North
Koreans had tried to get him to
broadcast for them for propaganda,
but he wouldn’t. It made them pret
ty sore, but they couldn’t do any
thing with Major McDaniel.
“At that time, our ration was a
small piece of bread and a bowl
of soup made from radish greens
and fish. The major persuaded
them to let our own cooks handle
the chow. That helped, but_ when
he saw the Reds were shorting us
on food, he raised hell with them.
When the Reds forced American
prisoners to begin the long death
march toward Manchuria, the
major always tried to look after
the men. He argued with the Com
munists about food, clothing, medi
cal care, and transportation. He
even managed to get some of the
wounded aboard ox carts. _
“Whenever anybody died the
major held services. He always
said a few words and said a
prayer. He saw that they were
buried. He wrote the man’s name
on a slip of paper and he put the
paper in a bottle and buried it
with the body.”
Once, Yeager, said American jet
planes, mistakenly attacked the
column and killed some of the pris
oners. Again the major handled
the burial of the dead.
“The major argued all the way
with the Reds,” Yeager said, “and
if the men got discouraged, he
would do all he could to raise
their spirits. He never encouraged*
or discouraged anyone when they
wanted to escape. That was always
up to the man himself.
“The Reds would give the
major a little more food than
the rest of us but he always
shared it. If he was smoking a
cigarette and someone asked for
the butt the major would just
hand him the whole cigarette.”
Other Americans who had es
caped the massacre nodded agree
ment. They all said the major was
a great guy.
Yeager, said, “we don’t know
whether he is alive or not. Fri
day morning the Reds took him out
of the train, saying they were go
ing on a chow detail. We never ^
saw him again.”
As I started down the ridge,
Yeager called:
“If you write anything about the
major, be sure to say that if it
hadn’t been for him, none of us
would be alive today.”
Sportsmanship Group
OK’s Anthem Singing
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DAVE COSLETT, CLAYTON L. SELPH Co-Editors
John Whitmore, L. O. Tiedt Managing Editors
Sid Abeniathy, Jerry Zuber Campus News Editors
Frank N. Mamtzas Sports Editor
Joel Austin Lity News Editor
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Today’s Issue
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Hildebrand, Jerry Fontaine, Jack Fontaine
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Sam Molinary Chief Photographer
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Chuck Neighbors. Fred Walker Sports Writers
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Still skeptical? Then load your
pockets with change and find out
for yourselves At Guion is Betty
Hutton’s “Annie Get Your Gun;”
downtown, the Palace is absorbing
Judy .Garland’s bellowing in Sum
mer Stock.” Both films are tech-
nicolored musicals whose facile
scores to be bludgeoned to death
with the desperate duo’s vocal
sledge-hammers, and both should
incite your adrenal glands to vio
lent action.
Much critical adulation has been
bestowed upon “Annie Get Your
Gun” for its worth as a faithful
“Summer Stock” has more to be
said in its favor although its plot
is infantile and imitative. Gene
Kelly's virile and imaginative hoof
ing, the comedy of Phil Silvers and
Eddie Bracken, and a couple of
sprightly tunes relieve the general
gloom generated by Miss Garland.
Where Betty is low-down and
loud, Our Little Judy is ‘sweet’ and
Ipud. In every picture she is un
erringly practical, level-headed,
wholesome, kind, unselfish, and ex
uberant. Sort of a grown-up Mar
garet O’Brien. All that we can see
in Our Gal Judy is an aggravating,
neurotic effusiveness which mani-.
fests itself chiefly as a nervous,
flustered smile.
And folks, Our Jury’s getting
fat.
Schiwetz to Talk
To Gallery Group
Edward M. “Buck” Schwetz, ’21,
prominent artist with the firm of
Wilkinson, Schiwetz and Tips of
Houston will be guest speaker
at a meeting of the Art Gallery
Committee, Monday night, Oct. 23
at 7:30 p. m. in the Art Room of
the MSG.
Schiwetz has done a great deal
of work in both oil and water col
ors and is w r ell known to Texas ar
tists, according to Mrs. Ralph Ter
ry, sponser of the Art Gallery
Committee.
Schiwetz has done many oil
field paintings for the Humble Oil,
Co., while a great deal of the rest
of his paintings has dealt with
scenes from the pioneer days in
Texas, Mrs. Terry continued.
Some of the Houston artist’s
work is on display in the center and
more of his work will be displayed
soon.
Anyone interested in art is in
vited to attend the meeting and
hear Schiwetz speak.
RF 401 Glasses
Slate Held Trip
A field trip is scheduled for
Range and Forestry 40i students
from 1 to 5 p. m. Monday and
Tuesday, Oct. 23 and 24.
The trip will be made in cars
to a .site three miles- south of
Caldwell. An inspection of three
farms will be made.
reproduction of the Irving Berlin
stage hit. If such be the case,
then we must admit that the stage
version would probably have had
just as little appeal for us. Slap
stick burlesques such as this one
about Annie Oakley hove the same
effect on us as a lump in our cream
of wheat.
Miss Hutton applies her strdent
bellows ,to an appealing Berlin
score which includes “Got the .Sun
In The Mornin’,” “They Say It’s
Wonderful,” and “You Can’t Get
A Man With a Gun.”
Letters
Our Grimy Grand
Editor, The Battalion:
I don’t know who is responsible,
but the condition of the grand
piano at the Leonard Warren pro
gram Thursday night was abomin
able.
Dust was about two inches thick
on the piano and the finish looked
as if someone had been ice skating
upon it.
It seems as if one of the first
duties of the persons responsible
for the piano should be to gee
that it is in as perfect condition as
possible fqr the concerts.
Dusted and waxed at least ! ! I
Tom jRountree ’52
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school student bodies at extra-con
ference games.
A move concerning the playing
and singing of “The Star Span
gled Banner” preceding each game
was passed unanimously. It pro
vides that before each game, yell
leaders from each school will lead
the student body and other specta
tors in singing the national an
them.
A&M Salutes
A&M and its yell leaders were
excluded from the provisions at
the request of the Aggie delega
tion. A&M’s unique position as a
Military college precludes the ma
jority of the student body from
singing.
Concerning tickets for the New
Year’s Day Cotton Bowl game, the
committee decided to investigate
the possibilities of qllPtting a set
number of tickets to all conference
schools. The tickets are presently
available to competing conference
schools only.
A similar move was undertaken
two years ago by Charles Kirkham
of A&M when he was president ,of
the Student Senate. No action was
eyer takeft' by conference officials
on the matter.
A semi-monthly conference news
letter was also given the go-ahead
by the school delegations. Under
the provisions set up, the govern
ing body of each school will twice
monthly forward to a designated
newsletter editor happenings on
each campus relative to the sports
manship program.
The editor will then assemble
these reports and put them out in
newsletter form to the student goy-
erning bodies, the yell leaders and,
the newspapers throughout the
conference. The newspapers will
run these newsletters or excerpts
therefrom for the information of
the student body.
Newsletter Editor
Bill Robins, student government'
president a,t Arkansas, was select
ed to edit the newsletter. He vig
orously favored enactment of the
scheme which passed unanimously. •
The committee proposed that in
dividual sportsmanship sub-com
mittees be established in each con-*
ference school to perform such du
ties as welcoming delegations from
other schools, assisting in team and
student body receptions and educa- *
tion for sportsmanship within each
school.
Submitted for investigation was
a move to provide yell leaders
from each school with a pass en
abling them to attend all confer
ence games.
Members of the A&M delegation
were Senate President Bill Parse, ,
Joseph, and Battalion Co-Editors
Clayton Selph and Dave Coslett.
The meeting was presided ove:
by Mac Bentliff, committee chair
man and TU head yell leader. An
other meeting will be held in Dal-’
las preceding the Sportsmanshif
Award presentation.
"Knock-Down, Drag-Out’.
Washington, Oct. 23—(A 5 ) —
Sleeves were rolled up all around
today for what looked like a knock
down, drag-out fight over color
television.
T h,e Federal Communications
Commission, which has held aloof
from the squabble over color which
followed its selection two weeks
ago of Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem’s color plan as the official sys
tem, announced it will vigorously
contest court challenges against its
order. Tjiey have been filed in
New York and Chicago by Pilot
Radio Corp., Radio Corporation of
America and National Broadcasting
Co.
At the same time, th; commission
moved yesterday to get RCA’s re
jected color system off the air
waves during regular commercial
telecasting periods, for which CBS
has been given formal licenses ef
fective Nov. 20.
Experiment
The commission notified NBC,
which is affiliated with RCA, that
it may continue “experimental” col
or broadcasts under the RCA sys
tem over Washington station
WNBW and New York station
WNBT, but that these broadcasts
may not be handled during “nor
mal broadcast hours” on the NBC
network.
NBC and RCA had no immediate
comment.
For about a year NBC has been
broadcasting some of its commer
cial programs in RCA color, by way
of keeping the public reminded that
the RCA method is “compatible”
with current operations—that is,
that it may be viewed in black and
white by owners of present sets
without additional equipment or
dial adjustment.
New Program
Under the FCC ruling, NBC can
make such demonstrations only in
.the morning hours or very late at
night when most commercial pro
grams are off the air.
The commission also answered
an RCA charge that it may have
been influenced in selecting Colum
bia color by biased advice from
an FCC engineer who has invented
an adapter to enable existing sets
to get the CBS color system in
black and white.
The commission said the inven
tion, by laboratory chief Edwin W.
Chapin, assited by an aide, Willmar
K. Roberts, has been turned over
to the U. S. government. FCC
said the government holds the pat
ent and that no individual could col
lect royalties from it.
Announce Invention
FCC noted that it publicly an
nounced the invention a year ago,
and that FCC chairman Wayne
Coy at the time formally expressed
resentment at any suggestion that
the commission had made a special
effort to assist Columbia or would
be influenced in a selection of a
color system “by the work of a
single member of its staff or all
of its staff.”
Meanwhile, Tele - Tone Radio
Corp. bought national advertising
to announce it was putting into
mass production a “package con
verter” designed to give present
sets the benefit of the projected
CBS color operations.
The company said the converter
“will he pidced so moderately it
will be within the immediate reach
of every TV set owner.”
Two more small manufactui’ers
announced plans to make equip
ment to receive CBS color. They
were Muntz TV, Inc., of New York,
and Belmont Radio Corp. of Chi
cago, makers of Raytheon sets.
But in Syracuse, N. Y., the Gen
eral Electric Co. said it will con
tinue production of black and white
sets “with full confidence” they
will be bought in increasing num
bers. GE has criticized the FCC
order adopting the CBS system.
Simultaneously Pilot placed ad
vertising poking fun at the CBS
mechanical color disc, which is com
pared to “a flying saucer.” Pilot
said it was anxious to bring color
to the public, but not with the ap
paratus required for receiving the
CBS method.
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